While we are complaining...I think I'm coming down with the plague. My throat huuuuuurts.

I've got to take teenage girl back to the doc this morning. Her impetigo needs a re-check. Ew. That and her skin seems to be freaking out because I switched laundry soap. Why can't she just have normal skin like the rest of us?

A wake up to a coughing and crying toddler yelling MAAMAA at the top of her lungs sucks. Going to check on her and finding her puking was even worse.
Get her back to sleep and I stay up listening to her on the monitor surfing BBC. Several hours later I wake up. I'm still sitting propped up, the bed room light is still on, no longer fresh pumped milk on the side table and my feet are numb from my laptop miraculously staying on my lap while sleeping. This is gonna be a long freakin day.

Taking lo to the Dr this morning for her nasty cold, Max's episode scared the crap out of me! After her 4 mos appt on Friday I will be checking out of this pedi's office..I think the final straw was yesterday when I took off work to take her in, it took 45 minutes to get through and the receptionist says, "let me get a nurse to call you back." An hour and a half later I call back and ask why the hell I need a nurse to call me back to make an appt...this girl says that they are booked and basically the nurse will call and assess whether it is important enough to fit my baby in that day. The nurse finally calls back 3.5 hrs after initial call and obviously determines that my 4 month old is not important enough to be seen that day, so she schedules one for this morning. Clearly you have too much business if you can't fit my sick baby in (and this is not the first time) when you leave plenty of time slots for sick calls...anyways, this place sucks and Im moving on. lol

Omg. I have a UTI. Never had one before but I'm fairly sure that's whay I'm dealing with. This sucks! My mom's coming to watch the kids so I don't have to drag them to the germy doc in the box to get an rx. Not what I had planned for my day :( and on top of it, I was really hoping to have the tree decorated and the house picked up before my mom saw our house all decorated. Dumb I know. She doesn't care. But I do!

I wish I had some depends so I could try to dribble out pee as I went about my morning. I think it would be a relief to pee my pants right now.

OMG you guys with babes who wake all night long, how do you do this?! More importantly, how do you do it and not murder every non-baby-having person you encounter (including non-waking spouses and partners)?

LO went down a treat last night at his normal time. DH and I stayed up until 11 as per usual. We got into bed, DH started to fall asleep and then suddenly sneezed. Then about a half second later, my elderly, deaf old cat screamed at the top of her lungs. Our house is tiny and the walls are really just a theoretical suggestion, so now the baby is awake. And will not go back to sleep. I send DH in to deal with it (you broke it, you bought it, Sneezy) but he is incapable of putting the baby to sleep. Not for lack of trying, LO just won't sleep for him. So sure enough 10 minutes later I'm out of bed and nursing that baby down again. Which I don't like to do because sleep associatiooonnnnssss we're all gonna dieeeeee but... my ass was tired and LO's ass was apparently not.

Up again at 2. Fed, put back down. Up again at 5, brought into bed with us where he slept like a damn log until just now (8:15) despite all kinds of noises and jostling and my psychotic old cat all up in all of our grills.

NOTICE TO BABY: We will not be cosleeping. No matter how hard you try to convince me, it is not going to happen. If we didn't cosleep back when you were a completely helpless newborn, we ain't gonna do it now. That ship has sailed and you and I were not on it. Stop trying to make fetch happen, okay?

I am going to make use of the "nap pod" in the library on campus today.

hahaha rosa....your post almost had me in tears from laughing so hard!

Lo has slept through the night for over 2 months (Im talking 8+ hrs) but yesterday she woke up at 4 am...I was freaking out, hoping this wasnt going to be the new thing, also wondering, how the hell do people do this???